Robert Delaunay Quotes

• First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Myself, Believe, Sun

• Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

  Robert Delaunay

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Essence, Direct

• But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Movement, Importance, Color

• If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Object, Literary

• It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Moment, Problem, Research

• I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Believe, Look, Sense

• I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Care

• Nature engenders the science of painting.

  Robert Delaunay

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Science, Painting

• Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Light, Movement

• In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Find, System, Theory

• Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Light, Painting, Birth

• Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

  Robert Delaunay

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Light, Movement

• On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Back, Little, Artist

• Painting is by nature a luminous language.

  Robert Delaunay

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Language, Painting

• Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Perception

• Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

  Robert Delaunay

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Light, Harmony

• The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Mind, Eye, Senses

• The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Idea, Movement, Vital

• This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Alone, Anything, Give

• This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Action, Subject, Harmony

Robert Delaunay (24)

Birth:	12th April, 1885
Death:	25th October, 1941
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Artist

About

Robert Delaunay was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.

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